Tag: Sustainable Cities
Raising the bar on improving the public’s health at Healthy City Design International Congress 2019
Michael Chang - Health, Open ResearchThis year the theme of the annual Healthy City Design International Congress, ‘Designing for utopia or dystopia? People and planetary health at a crossroads’, reflects a tipping point in which people’s health and wellbeing are becoming a central consideration in healthy city design and place-making. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a healthy city as …
Read ArticleWhy do Cities Matter in Sustainable Development Discourse?
Maha Al-Zu'bi, Vesela Radovic - Business Innovation, Culture, EnvironmentAs current projections indicate that the majority of the world’s future population will live in urban areas, cities play a central role in the pursuit of sustainable development. This recognition materialized through the inclusion of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development): “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient …
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